I got a catalog not long ago from Cyberguys and I remembered seeing just such a repeater in there. I have no idea about the quality of the repeater or of Cyberguys, so do some reasearch first. But if you're interested, they have this and this, either of which may work for you.
I don't usually post things like this, but seriously... Slashdot, WTF? "Your Rights Online?" There's a reason I have my account set up to minimize all the "Games" articles and maximize all the "Your Rights Online." And that would be because my rights actually matter, whereas video games don't. Maybe this would matter if it involved the exposure real data, but it didn't! You gamer fanboys get that it's all pretend, right? Like, it's not real and doesn't (or shouldn't, anyway) have any bearing on your real lives? OK, then. Jeez.
I'm American, and I have a Canadian girlfriend. I've crossed the border a few times now, and as far as I can tell, what you're describing is right. The Canadian border people aren't usually overtly friendly - I have yet to see one smile - but they often don't ask to see my ID, and once they didn't even bother to look at my face (I was in the back seat while my girlfriend and her mother were in the front). The Americans, on the other hand, always checked the passports of everyone in the vehicle, asked a lot of questions, etc. It does seem to help if my girlfriend is crossing into the US with me. When she's only with other Canadians, they tend to be subject to a lot more scrutiny.
That's about what I got out of it, too. I'm reading one description after another and thinking, "OK, now tell me what this company's software does." Because some marketspeak babble about leveraging synergies doesn't mean a fucking thing to me. Chalk it up to the fact that I've (by choice!) never spent any time in a big corporate environment, I guess.
Of the products/companies on that list, I'd heard of KVM and SugarCRM.
This reminds me of a story I heard years ago about one of those smug, irritating Mac users who thought he was just so cool 'cause his computer did stupid little tricks like voice recognition. He had some sort of voice-command software installed on his Mac and he bragged about it (and other Mac things) to his fellow cube-dwellers constantly. At some point, though, someone figured out that one of the commands was "shut down," at which point his co-workers would regularly walk by his cubicle and yell "shut down!" at the computer, which would immediately and happily comply. Mac Boy uninstalled his voice-recognition software shortly thereafter.
Ettercap will let you launch an MitM attack against HTTPS. Yes, the user's browser will throw warnings about invalid signatures, but in practice, 99% of people click "yes, go ahead anyway!" Even the ones that bother to check the certificate will see it's full of perfectly legitimate-looking information and assume "it's just a glitch." It's really scary, but that's what almost all non-IT people will do.
Pacific time? No way! I've never even been to the west coast. I'm not even sure it really exists. I think California is probably no more real than Middle Earth. Isn't the Federation Academy on the "west coast," too? So now Star Trek is a documentary? God, I hate nerds.
I used to run Adblock with Filterset.G, but I had a number of problems with this setup:
Filterset.G didn't include some rules for major sites, like MySpace.
Because of that, I added many of my own blocking rules, which promptly got overwritten every time Filterset.G updated.
The guy who created Filterset.G is an egotistical whiner who didn't like his "hard work" being copied without attribution, so he became a prick about his "licensing terms." This has nothing to do with how well Filterset.G works, but annoys me personally.
So I switched to Adblock Plus, which:
Allows me to subscribe to a non-Filterset.G rule set, which seems to work a whole lot more effectively than Filterset.G ever did.
Allows me to block DOM elements as well as the usual URL patterns, which is incredibly useful for blocking ads on certain sites.
Allows me to create my own rules that aren't overwritten when the subscribed rule list updates.
It's been pointed out that CF bulbs actually result in a decrease in environmental mercury if your electricity is supplied by a coal-fired power plant. The amount of mercury released by the coal burned to generate the power the incandescent bulb uses that the CF doesn't is greater than the amount of mercury in the CF itself. So you still come out ahead.
I was thinking about how scary it was when I flashed the firmware on my Prism2 WLAN cards. I can't even imagine how bad it must have been flashing a couple of billion-dollar space robots while the entire scientific community watched. Jesus, I feel sick to my stomach now...
Looks like the site used to have a Wullenweber antenna, judging from the big circle with the smaller concentric circle inside, and the little building in the middle. Those are being decommissioned more and more these days, though. It's sad, 'cause they're incredibly cool, but there's just not much need for high-precision HF direction finding any more.
You might want to check out this cool new markup language called "HTML" (hypertext markup language). It will allow you to bold or italicize words, thus obviating the need for surrounding words with underscore characters to indicate emphasis.
Of course, if you're really 1337, you'll pretend you're on a terminal with non-destructive backspaces and use a construct like this^H^H^H^H____ for underlining.
Yeah, yeah, RFID, mark of the beast, firewall, virus, buzzword... whatever! This is Slashdot, and the important question is whether or not this Melanie Rieback chick is hot. 'Cause everyone knows that hot geek girls are the wet dream of every red-blooded male Slashdotter. And thanks to the magic that is Google, the answer appears to be, "Not bad... not bad at all!"
Close, but from what I understand it was capacitively coupled across a capacitor that was part of the circuit that drove the bell (it blocked DC, so the bell only rang when the 20 Hz, 90v AC signal was applied), which is obviously connected all the time. I even saw schematics for such a device years ago. Of course, the technique would be utterly useless with modern phones.
Does any major site use pure CSS?
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I'm not trolling, I swear. But I've been playing with Firefox's DOM inspector lately, and I've noticed that every single major site I've visited and "inspected" has used a nested-tables layout. Reading Slashdot will lead one to believe that that's the greatest sin one can possibly commit in HTML design, yet it seems to be done everywhere, all the time. It's my personal opinion that some things are just way easier to do with tables than CSS, and that's why people keep doing it. Am I right?
It's not that the links are inherently dangerous. The problem is that clicking such a link will take you to the site the link points to (obviously), and your browser will dutifully report your referrer to the remote server. And if your referrer looks something like "http://www.example.com/top-secret-stats-directory /awstats-referrers.html" then you've just given some unknown server a "back door" into your web stats, allowing them to gather intelligence about your site. In many cases that's unimportant - either the site is an inconsequential personal web page, or the directory is password protected, or you're smart enough to use something to prevent your browser from sending referrer information. But as we all know, many people don't do what they should, and sometimes little data leaks like this can lead to compromises.
As a scientist working in a related field I find this desire to polarise the whole thing utterly exasperating. For whatever reason, mainstream scientific opinion gets lumped on one side of this divide, and the other side is left fixated on fringe opinions from a tiny minority of dissenters on one wing of the science.
There! He said it! The Left is fixated on fringe opinion from a tiny minority! Even this genuine scientist agrees with us - global warming is a hoax!!
This message brought to you by Saudi Aramco, Halliburton, and the Bush administration. All rights reserved.
Would it be better if we had yet another fucking video game article? "OMFG T3H PS3 1S T3H 3>P3NS1V3!!11!1!eleventy!!1" Yeah, I'll take investment casting over that shit any day, thanks.
Many of the people who trash MySQL, and MyISAM in particular, seem to come from a formal CS educational background, or at the very least were trained on commercial RDBMS's that supported all those whiz-bang features that MySQL lacked for so long (and still lacks, in a few cases). I, on the other hand, knew next to nothing about databases when all of a sudden I had to build an entire infrastructure around one, with next to no money. Yeah, I know, this is insane, blah blah blah, but that was 8 years ago, the company itself is now 10 years old, and the gamble paid off. My point, however, is that I didn't have these preconceived notions about what a database server was supposed to be, so I just worked with the limitations of early versions of MySQL and grew as its feature set grew.
Even today, I find MyISAM extremely useful. Many of our data sets are big (hundreds of millions, or well over a billion, records in tens to hundreds of gigabytes) but are essentially read-only. For these, MyISAM is great. I can load and index the data on a machine with tons of RAM and fast disks, then copy it to much less powerful production machines and, with all the heavy lifting done, I have lightning-fast access to my data. It's great. Backups and crash recovery are much easier when you can just resynchronize sets of files using rsync, never touching all those huge tables full of read-only data.
ACID compliance and transactions just aren't necessary for everything a database server does in all contexts. Sometimes the reduced overhead and simplicity of the problem means MyISAM is the best choice.
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I got a catalog not long ago from Cyberguys and I remembered seeing just such a repeater in there. I have no idea about the quality of the repeater or of Cyberguys, so do some reasearch first. But if you're interested, they have this and this, either of which may work for you.
I don't usually post things like this, but seriously... Slashdot, WTF? "Your Rights Online?" There's a reason I have my account set up to minimize all the "Games" articles and maximize all the "Your Rights Online." And that would be because my rights actually matter, whereas video games don't. Maybe this would matter if it involved the exposure real data, but it didn't! You gamer fanboys get that it's all pretend, right? Like, it's not real and doesn't (or shouldn't, anyway) have any bearing on your real lives? OK, then. Jeez.
First the bees start disappearing, now the P's as well. We're doomed.
I'm American, and I have a Canadian girlfriend. I've crossed the border a few times now, and as far as I can tell, what you're describing is right. The Canadian border people aren't usually overtly friendly - I have yet to see one smile - but they often don't ask to see my ID, and once they didn't even bother to look at my face (I was in the back seat while my girlfriend and her mother were in the front). The Americans, on the other hand, always checked the passports of everyone in the vehicle, asked a lot of questions, etc. It does seem to help if my girlfriend is crossing into the US with me. When she's only with other Canadians, they tend to be subject to a lot more scrutiny.
That's about what I got out of it, too. I'm reading one description after another and thinking, "OK, now tell me what this company's software does." Because some marketspeak babble about leveraging synergies doesn't mean a fucking thing to me. Chalk it up to the fact that I've (by choice!) never spent any time in a big corporate environment, I guess.
Of the products/companies on that list, I'd heard of KVM and SugarCRM.
This reminds me of a story I heard years ago about one of those smug, irritating Mac users who thought he was just so cool 'cause his computer did stupid little tricks like voice recognition. He had some sort of voice-command software installed on his Mac and he bragged about it (and other Mac things) to his fellow cube-dwellers constantly. At some point, though, someone figured out that one of the commands was "shut down," at which point his co-workers would regularly walk by his cubicle and yell "shut down!" at the computer, which would immediately and happily comply. Mac Boy uninstalled his voice-recognition software shortly thereafter.
Ettercap will let you launch an MitM attack against HTTPS. Yes, the user's browser will throw warnings about invalid signatures, but in practice, 99% of people click "yes, go ahead anyway!" Even the ones that bother to check the certificate will see it's full of perfectly legitimate-looking information and assume "it's just a glitch." It's really scary, but that's what almost all non-IT people will do.
46 feet?? Holy crap! Where'd you even find space to mount it?
Pacific time? No way! I've never even been to the west coast. I'm not even sure it really exists. I think California is probably no more real than Middle Earth. Isn't the Federation Academy on the "west coast," too? So now Star Trek is a documentary? God, I hate nerds.
Quick, tell me how many miles per gallon 40 rods per hogshead is
God bless America, and God bless Google Calculator:
40 (rods per hogshead) = 0.00198412698 miles per gallon
So there's your answer: roughly the gas mileage of the Hummer H2.
Only ad-blockers that works as proxies have that issue (Privoxy, for example). Firefox extensions and the like handle HTTPS just fine.
So I switched to Adblock Plus, which:
Adblock Plus rocks. There's just no comparison.
That's a trick question. The correct answer is "bound parameters using PDO."
The average quality of postings on the intarwebs being what it is, I was well into the second sentence before I even realized that post was a joke.
It's been pointed out that CF bulbs actually result in a decrease in environmental mercury if your electricity is supplied by a coal-fired power plant. The amount of mercury released by the coal burned to generate the power the incandescent bulb uses that the CF doesn't is greater than the amount of mercury in the CF itself. So you still come out ahead.
I was thinking about how scary it was when I flashed the firmware on my Prism2 WLAN cards. I can't even imagine how bad it must have been flashing a couple of billion-dollar space robots while the entire scientific community watched. Jesus, I feel sick to my stomach now...
Looks like the site used to have a Wullenweber antenna, judging from the big circle with the smaller concentric circle inside, and the little building in the middle. Those are being decommissioned more and more these days, though. It's sad, 'cause they're incredibly cool, but there's just not much need for high-precision HF direction finding any more.
You might want to check out this cool new markup language called "HTML" (hypertext markup language). It will allow you to bold or italicize words, thus obviating the need for surrounding words with underscore characters to indicate emphasis.
Of course, if you're really 1337, you'll pretend you're on a terminal with non-destructive backspaces and use a construct like this^H^H^H^H____ for underlining.
Yeah, yeah, RFID, mark of the beast, firewall, virus, buzzword... whatever! This is Slashdot, and the important question is whether or not this Melanie Rieback chick is hot. 'Cause everyone knows that hot geek girls are the wet dream of every red-blooded male Slashdotter. And thanks to the magic that is Google, the answer appears to be, "Not bad... not bad at all!"
Close, but from what I understand it was capacitively coupled across a capacitor that was part of the circuit that drove the bell (it blocked DC, so the bell only rang when the 20 Hz, 90v AC signal was applied), which is obviously connected all the time. I even saw schematics for such a device years ago. Of course, the technique would be utterly useless with modern phones.
I'm not trolling, I swear. But I've been playing with Firefox's DOM inspector lately, and I've noticed that every single major site I've visited and "inspected" has used a nested-tables layout. Reading Slashdot will lead one to believe that that's the greatest sin one can possibly commit in HTML design, yet it seems to be done everywhere, all the time. It's my personal opinion that some things are just way easier to do with tables than CSS, and that's why people keep doing it. Am I right?
It's not that the links are inherently dangerous. The problem is that clicking such a link will take you to the site the link points to (obviously), and your browser will dutifully report your referrer to the remote server. And if your referrer looks something like "http://www.example.com/top-secret-stats-directory /awstats-referrers.html" then you've just given some unknown server a "back door" into your web stats, allowing them to gather intelligence about your site. In many cases that's unimportant - either the site is an inconsequential personal web page, or the directory is password protected, or you're smart enough to use something to prevent your browser from sending referrer information. But as we all know, many people don't do what they should, and sometimes little data leaks like this can lead to compromises.
As a scientist working in a related field I find this desire to polarise the whole thing utterly exasperating. For whatever reason, mainstream scientific opinion gets lumped on one side of this divide, and the other side is left fixated on fringe opinions from a tiny minority of dissenters on one wing of the science.
There! He said it! The Left is fixated on fringe opinion from a tiny minority! Even this genuine scientist agrees with us - global warming is a hoax!!
This message brought to you by Saudi Aramco, Halliburton, and the Bush administration. All rights reserved.
Would it be better if we had yet another fucking video game article? "OMFG T3H PS3 1S T3H 3>P3NS1V3!!11!1!eleventy!!1" Yeah, I'll take investment casting over that shit any day, thanks.
Many of the people who trash MySQL, and MyISAM in particular, seem to come from a formal CS educational background, or at the very least were trained on commercial RDBMS's that supported all those whiz-bang features that MySQL lacked for so long (and still lacks, in a few cases). I, on the other hand, knew next to nothing about databases when all of a sudden I had to build an entire infrastructure around one, with next to no money. Yeah, I know, this is insane, blah blah blah, but that was 8 years ago, the company itself is now 10 years old, and the gamble paid off. My point, however, is that I didn't have these preconceived notions about what a database server was supposed to be, so I just worked with the limitations of early versions of MySQL and grew as its feature set grew.
Even today, I find MyISAM extremely useful. Many of our data sets are big (hundreds of millions, or well over a billion, records in tens to hundreds of gigabytes) but are essentially read-only. For these, MyISAM is great. I can load and index the data on a machine with tons of RAM and fast disks, then copy it to much less powerful production machines and, with all the heavy lifting done, I have lightning-fast access to my data. It's great. Backups and crash recovery are much easier when you can just resynchronize sets of files using rsync, never touching all those huge tables full of read-only data.
ACID compliance and transactions just aren't necessary for everything a database server does in all contexts. Sometimes the reduced overhead and simplicity of the problem means MyISAM is the best choice.